Former US President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower for Manhattan federal courtroom for the second defamation trial towards him, in New York City on January 17, 2024.
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A New York federal choose snapped at a lawyer for Donald Trump on Wednesday after she once more requested for a delay in his sex assault defamation trial so the previous president might attend his mother-in-law’s funeral
“I said sit down!” Judge Lewis Kaplan informed Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba.
Habba replied, “I do not wish to be spoken [to] like that … I cannot communicate to you want that.”
Kaplan shot again, “It is denied. Sit down.”
The choose a number of occasions has rejected Habba’s request for a delay within the trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The tense alternate, which Trump was in courtroom to witness, got here shortly earlier than the author E. Jean Carroll was referred to as to the stand to testify.
Carroll says Trump raped her within the mid-Nineteen Nineties in a New York City division retailer.
The case will decide the financial damages Trump should pay Carroll for defamatory statements he made about her in 2019 whereas president and later when he denied her allegations.
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